The Olympic Peninsula is home to some of the worlds’ greatest softwood forests. But for decades, logs from these woods have been shipped to China, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, and processing plants around the U.S. What was left behind? The Peninsula’s people.

JTC is part of a broad-based effort to revitalize long-neglected rural communities on the Olympic Peninsula. A budding local wood movement promises to create prosperity-wage, highly skilled jobs that can stop the export of young people and wealth by stopping the export of raw logs.

Specifically, JTC is positioning itself as a critical link in a growing chain of value-added businesses on the Peninsula that start with growing native trees in sustainably managed, permanently protected forests and end with lumber, architectural wood, and furniture in the homes and offices of end users.

 By building processing and manufacturing capacity for local wood, JTC aims to create the types of high-value products, identity, and young, dedicated workforce that has made the local food movement—itself only 20 years old—such a driving force for positive ecological, social, and economic change.

The People of JTC

JTC members are dynamic microentrepreneurs who are committed to building their families, careers, and businesses here. As a group, they have a well-earned reputation for integrity, reliability, creative problem-solving, and quality. Their experience ranges from production work for building packages to one-of-a-kind signature pieces for boat builders, native carvers, custom homes, and commercial buildings.